Uh… What? The US has twice the aircraft carriers as every other country combined
Yes but China has been rolling out some impressive new ships that the US doesn’t have for awhile now on top of their recent aviation announcements so people are getting a little concerned
China doesn’t have shit to challenge the U.S.
They don’t have the experience, the doctrine, or the technology.
Anyone who considers China a legitimate naval threat is vastly overstating China’s capabilities.
The only thing they are capable of is bullying tiny countries.
exactly so let’s say I’m way stronger than you but you start working out hard, so will I hopefully you never catch up
Any excuse for shinier boats
Yes, that. The US DoD has been playing this trick since the end of WW2, and it keeps working.
It keeps working because every politician in this slavemaster system supports it completely.
Who touched the boats?
Oooofff, I’ll get the popcorn.
Let’s see what our proportional retaliation will be.
Paywalled but from what little I can see, the only response is: DUH!
I imagine if I were able to read it, it’s just hand wringing and fan service to the military industrial complex, no real substance. Aside from the military, shipbuilding left this country decades ago and no one seems to want to do anything about it. We can’t even manage taking care of our own infrastructure, build an EV supply chain when there was no competition yet, or restore the microprocessor supply chain we still have some of. I don’t see how anything happens here, especially if we’re focusing on cutting government services for the next four years
We can’t afford to do things like infrastructure because we spend all our money on massive overkill naval (etc.) superiority. If these “fears” are founded at all, it could only be due to us making the blunder of “fighting the last war” and wasting trillions of dollars on the wrong tech (e.g. going all-in on aircraft carriers that are alarmingly vulnerable to modern missile attacks), not failing to budget [way more than] enough money to begin with.
Here you go, full article:
Thank you kindly! I browse Lemmy on my phone and never figured out how to do that on the tiny screen
Car dependency is a fundamentally unsustainable con. We will never be able to maintain that garbage infrastructure. Yet the preservation of this moronic privilege is a primary goal of the MIC. It’s a self-eating snake that poops gold for warmongers.
The MIC “fears” slowing down its planet-destroying profits.
